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    BB> I don't care who you elect, that's a problem beyond the President.   
    BB> (In fact may be beyond anyone as so many different fingers in the   
    BB> pot.  China needs gas, Europe needs gas, yet both have very little   
    BB> locally so they drive up the world market.   
      
    RW> IMho it's a stupid thing to even campaign about, or discuss. It's   
    RW> economics. But, we stand there and beat our breast if   
    RW> we're a pol and say what we're gonna do to give us cheaper   
    RW> gas.   
      
   It's a hot button thing right now, and of course anyone who promises a fix will   
   catch the public eye.  The fact that the 'fix' is beyond him is quickly   
   gnored.   
      
    RW> INstead imho we need to be talking about alternative energy, rebuilding   
    RW> the infrastructure and sustainable economy across the board.  The rest   
    RW> of it is just bs.  But, these folks   
    RW> don't have any plan of addressing those issues because the   
    RW> huge multinational corporations don't want them addressed.   
      
   Alternate energy also has some costs.  CA, being a sunny state, and San Diego   
   being a sunny town you'd think we'd have a lot of solar panels - hell on every   
   roof top if the green folks had their say - yet we don't.  (However SD leads   
   the state in solar rooftops on residences.)   
      
   Why not more you ask?  Haa, SDG&E has decided these folks aren't paying their   
   share of maintaining the infrastructure needed to provide power at night.   
   Simple answer, tack on a fee for those having solar panels - price right now   
   isn't all that bad, about 25 a month if they get it passed, but that's just a   
   start.   
      
   Now you hear the roars of the folks who tried to price out the cost of the   
   system -- that fee wasn't part of the plan, in fact in many cases you just   
   can't get the cost back now.   
      
   And so it goes...   
      
    BB> I hear stories about how we really don't have to compete with that,   
    BB> having vast amounts of oil on our own land, but then why are we   
    BB> doing it?   
      
    RW> We don't anyway, better mass transit, alternative energy   
    RW> sources and the like.  We're selling some of ours to europe   
    RW> and importing it from people who hate us.  .   
      
    BB> Above my pay grade...   
      
    RW> YEah I know, but you'll get sold the same bs bill of good   
    RW> whether you vote for Obama or the other guy anyway.  I found it amazing   
    RW> the sheeple bought in so readily the first time.   
      
      
   Simple answer here, I just stopped listening to all of them. :)  Yeah, I'm   
   failing my civic duty because 'every vote counts."   Haa, I say Haa!   Man talk   
   about a line of bs, put that one at the top!   
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
       
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